As the city shutters LGBTQ+-focused health-care clinics, unemployment surges, and the pandemic rages on, community health-care centers struggle to pick up the pieces.
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Investing in local news is more important than ever
Particularly in communities of color disproportionately affected by coronavirus, access to information is critical.
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LGBTQ community needs assessment survey closes January 31
Results will be used to inform grant-making decisions this spring; members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to participate.
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In April See Chicago Dance wants the whole city to . . . well, you know
There will be events all month, all over to get you on your feet
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Gwendolyn Brooks gets the centennial birthday party she deserves
Our Miss Brooks 100 is a yearlong celebration of the great poet of Bronzeville.
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American Theater Company’s artistic director leaves a worthy legacy
American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli, killed in Scotland last month, leaves a worthy legacy in The Project(s).
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Tribune nips Reader for best website
Reader website places high in local website judging
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Chicago sites unite
Chicago news websites unite to offer advertisers a million-page-view market
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Think you’ve got journalism’s next big idea? Get to know Elspeth Revere, the MacArthur Foundation’s media maven
The most important woman in Chicago journalism attended the landmark Chicago Journalism Town Hall in early 2009 and sat quietly in back. Few people knew she was there or who she was, but the noisy room would have gone stone silent in an instant if she’d stood and said something like, “Many of you have […]
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Net News in Chicago: Still Poor, Still Striving
A new report on online journalism in Chicago says audiences are rapidly growing but hardly anyone’s getting paid.
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Is This the Future of Chicago Journalism?
The Chicago Community Trust is scattering half a million dollars in seed money to support 12 innovative local journalism projects. It’s a new program, Community News Matters, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($250,000) and the John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation ($100,000) as well as CCT; spokesperson Vivian Vahlberg says […]
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CCT Fellows include Silk Road and Sones de Mexico leaders
Silk Road’s Malik Gillani and Sones de Mexico’s Juan Dies are CCT Fellows
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Behind the Joseph Holmes Collapse/Dance Coalition Board Downsizes/Seminary Co-op Heads North
Chicago Dance Coalition director Lisa Tylke cuts and runs.